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=, the Media Research Center will <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2018/03/27/media-research-center-announces-fact-checking-fact-checkers-project" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">now be</a> “fact-checking the fact-checkers”: “In an era of ‘fake news’ and inaccurate reporting, it is important now more than ever that the fact-checkers themselves are exposed for their biases. MRC routinely finds instances when fact-checkers bend the truth or disproportionately target conservatives. We are assigning our own rating to their judgments and will expose the worst offenders.”<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mrcs-dan-gainor-the-mainstream-media-has-embraced-witchcraft/">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mrcs-dan-gainor-the-mainstream-media-has-embraced-witchcraft/</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dan Gainor, Media Research Center’s vice president for business and culture, told Breitbart News radio listeners this morning that “pro-science” media outlets shouldn’t be trusted because they simultaneously run astrology columns, and also accused those outlets of embracing witchcraft.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gainor joined host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow <a id="LPlnk585863" href="https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/breitbart-news-daily-dan-gainor-november-19-2018" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">this morning</a> on SirusXM’s “Breitbart News Daily” to criticize mainstream media outlets for not covering anti-fascist demonstrators as if they’re organized terror cells. The conversation veered off course near the end of the interview, with Gainor railing against outlets that publish astrological horoscopes but have the audacity to challenge conservatives on their denial of climate change.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Look at all the pro-science people, all the pro-science outlets that run astrology,” Gainor said. “Hey, Washington Post, you want to bash conservatives about science—you run an astrology column. Hey, how many outlets do that? Vice does that. Broadly and all these other wack-job women’s websites all have astrology because they’ve all embraced Wicca.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“One of the outlets has a witchcraft correspondent,” he said. “They don’t have Christian correspondents. They don’t have faith-based correspondents. They have made-up religion correspondents because that’s what’s trendy in Hollywood and that’s what’s trendy in the media.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In this moment, Gainor sounds <a id="LPlnk305799" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lance-wallnau-the-media-is-using-mind-control-and-witchcraft-to-whip-up-opposition-to-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">an awful lot</a> like some of the Religious Right folks we’ve documented <a id="LPlnk322166" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mat-staver-media-is-waging-satanic-psychological-warfare-against-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">accusing</a> members of the press of operating a satanic plot against America. Gainor has <a id="LPlnk272472" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/mrc-attacks-the-media-for-covering-sports-non-christian-faiths/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">attacked</a> media outlets before for not granting Christianity the amount of coverage he would prefer.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Tags: <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/dan-gainor/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Dan Gainor</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/media/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Media</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/witchcraft/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Witchcraft</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/media-research-center/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Media Research Center</a>==

constant/mere mirroring?
<a href="http://www.mrc.org/commentary/nearly-30-soros-funded-media-operations-part-war-fox">http://www.mrc.org/commentary/nearly-30-soros-funded-media-operations-part-war-fox</a>

<div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; width: 1170px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: -15px; margin-left: -15px;"><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; float: left; width: 1170px;"><h1 class="page-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.33em !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; border-bottom: 0px !important;">Nearly 30 Soros-funded Media Operations Part of 'War on Fox'</h1></div><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; float: left; width: 1170px;"><div class="padding20bottom" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; width: 1170px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: -15px; margin-left: -15px;"><section class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; float: left; width: 1170px;"><div class="region region-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><section id="block-system-main" class="block block-system clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><article id="node-27034" class="node node-article clearfix" about="/commentary/nearly-30-soros-funded-media-operations-part-war-fox" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-item" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Last of Four PartsTo hear the left tell it, Fox News has a "<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/04/21/159743/hannity-fox-news-islamophobia/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">history of inciting Islamophobia and racial and ethic animosity</a>" and tries to <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/150986/how_fox_news_uses%27big,scary_hip-hop%27_to_race-bait_its_viewers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">"race bait its viewers."</a> One staffer is called a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/12/143730/watters-watch-my-blazer-bro/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">"hit man,"</a> while his network is accused of <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/?p=573" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">"attack politics."</a> A <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/12/20/study-claiming-fox-news-viewers-misinformed-fraught-errors" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">highly questionable study</a> is hyped by numerous outlets claiming that it <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/149193/study_confirms_that_fox_news_makes_you_stupid/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">"confirms that Fox News makes you stupid."</a> Fox is called simply: "<a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/159770/fox-liars-network" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">The Liars' Network</a>."Sure, liberals have it in for Fox News, but that deep-seated, anti-Fox agenda isn't just an organic response from the left. It's a George Soros-funded <a href="http://www.themediaconsortium.org/thebigthaw/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">"echo chamber"</a> "in which a message pushes the larger public or the mainstream media to acknowledge, respond, and give airtime to progressive ideas because it is repeated many times." That's how the strategy was described in a report by the Soros-funded <a href="http://www.themediaconsortium.org/our-members/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Media Consortium</a> called "The Big Thaw."The goal is <a href="http://motherjones.com/riff/2010/08/taking-down-fox-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">"Taking Down Fox News,"</a> as "Mother Jones," a member of the consortium, described it in a headline. That article, about another <a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/usprograms/focus/democracy/grants/social/grantees/cel" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Soros-funded operation</a> called Color of Change, explained how "it successfully urged several advertisers, including Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and RadioShack, to pull their ads from Beck's show." In all, nearly 30 organizations have attacked Fox News in the six months since the beginning of December, 2010.Think Progress, the heavily Soros-funded blog for the <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=60D88005-423C-4178-8928-6E5370A08A14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for American Progress</a>, slammed Fox more than 30 times in six months. AlterNet, an especially unhinged liberal outlet, went after the network at least 18 times in those months. It is one of 45 organizations aided by Soros' support of the <a href="http://www.themediaconsortium.org/our-members/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Media Consortium</a> - "a network of the country's leading, progressive, independent media outlets."These outlets are all part of Soros' web of media organizations that mirror his view of Fox as their enemy. That's the way he describes it in the new book, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philanthropy-George-Soros-Building-Societies/dp/1586488228" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">The Philanthropy of George Soros</a>." "Those in charge of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, have done well in identifying me as their adversary," he wrote. "They have done less well in the methods they used to attack me: Their lies shall not stand and their techniques shall not endure."That anti-Fox agenda is reflected in plans by another group in Soros' pocket to target the network specifically. Media Matters founder David Brock said his Soros-funded operation ($1.1 million) will "<a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=2531E25B-654B-4948-BD46-C0C717F5B557" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">focus on [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch</a> and trying to disrupt his commercial interests."This information is part of an upcoming report by the Media Research Center's <a href="http://www.mrc.org/bmi/bmi/commentary/2011/Unreported_Soros_Event_Aims_to_Remake_Entire_Global_Economy.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Business & Media Institute,</a> which has been looking into George Soros and his influence on the media.The left hating Fox isn't new. But the efforts of the different groups take on an amazing similarity. Take the University of Maryland study that seemed so critical of Fox News. The study itself included this nugget: "This suggests that <a href="http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/dec10/Misinformation_Dec10_rpt.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">misinformation cannot simply be attributed to news sources</a>, but are part of the larger information environment that includes statements by candidates, political ads and so on." That didn't stop any of the groups from using it against Fox News. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/149193/study_confirms_that_fox_news_makes_you_stupid/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">AlterNet</a>, <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/blog/fox_news_vs_the_university_of.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Washington Monthly</a>, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2010/12/16/135438/poll-fox-news-misinformation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Think Progress</a> and <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/real-fake-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">The Nation</a>. It quickly moved into the mainstream media from there.That's just part of Soros' influence. He denies having a media empire, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/05/18/soros-spending-48-million-funding-media-organizations/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">despite spending easily more than $48 million</a> on that empire and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/05/11/dont-hear-george-soros-ties-30-major-news-organizations/#content" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">having top journalists from more than 30 major news organizations</a> serving on the boards of groups he funds. It reaches at least <a href="http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Soros_Lefty_Media_Reach_More_Than__Million_Every_Month.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">180 media organizations</a>, and many other groups he funds include a media component in what they do.In the case of Robert Greenwald, he's turned attacking Fox into a mini-industry. Greenwald is founder and president of Brave New Films, also part of the Soros-funded Media Consortium. Greenwald was also behind "<a href="http://www.outfoxed.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism,</a>" The site for the movie that argues: "FOX News is on a witch hunt. <a href="http://www.outfoxed.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Fight back</a>." The Brave New Films site has an entire section going after Fox called: "When Fox Attacks." It claims: "Videos from this campaign have been viewed over 8 million times."When Soros was criticized by Fox, multiple pieces of the Soros Empire responded. In one case, Jonathan Schell, a fellow at The Nation Institute, another part of the Media Consortium, made Fox News out to be anti-Semitic for criticizing Soros. An opinion piece titled, <a href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/jschell8/English" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">"The Protocols of Rupert Murdoch,"</a> a reference to the infamous anti-Semitic "Protocols of The Elders of Zion," blasted Glenn Beck.Schell claimed Beck's criticism of 'the financier and philanthropist George Soros' in effect "recycles, almost in carbon copy, the tropes of the most virulent anti-Semitic ideologues." The column was distributed by another Soros-funded entity, Project Syndicate, which reaches "462 leading newspapers in 150 countries," with a monthly circulation of <a href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/member_papers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">72,815,528.</a>It's that sort of cooperation that makes the Soros-funded "echo chamber" successful. Go on AlterNet and find articles from The Nation, a rant by Robert Greenwald or an interview by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Or go on New America Media's site and find an article from Color Lines.The content from the 180 media sites that Soros helps support can be linked, cited or reposted, adding to the sense that there is strong interest in any particular "progressive idea." It's just one more way George Soros influences the media.Disclaimer: This writer has been on Fox News numerous times and writes a column that often runs on Foxnews.com. He has never received any compensation from Fox.Dan Gainor is the Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Center's Vice President for Business and Culture. His column appears each week on The Fox Forum. He can also be contacted on FaceBook and Twitter as dangainor.
===fox op ed<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">This is the first of a two part series on George Soros and the media.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">When liberal investor <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/george-soros.htm#r_src=ramp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">George Soros</a> <a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/usprograms/focus/transparency/news/npr-grant-20101018" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio</a> , it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR’s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who spent <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-18/soros-says-obama-has-lost-control-of-the-agenda-.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">$27 million trying to defeat President Bush</a> in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Prominent journalists like ABC’s <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/reporters/christiane-amanpour.htm#r_src=ramp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Christiane Amanpour</a> and former Washington Post editor and now Vice President Len Downie serve on boards of operations that take Soros cash. This despite the Society of Professional Journalists' ethical code stating: “avoid all conflicts real or perceived.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">This information is part of an upcoming report by the <a href="http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Unreported_Soros_Event_Aims_to_Remake_Entire_Global_Economy.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Media Research Centers Business & Media Institute </a>which has been looking into George Soros and his influence on the media.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">The investigative reporting start-up <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/propublica.htm#r_src=ramp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">ProPublica</a> is a prime example. ProPublica, which recently won its second Pulitzer Prize, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2175942/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">initially was given millions of dollars from the Sandler Foundation</a> to “strengthen the progressive infrastructure” – “progressive” being the code word for very liberal. In 2010, it also received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from the Open Society Foundations. In case you wonder where that money comes from, the OSF website is <a href="http://www.soros.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">www.soros.org</a>. It is a network of more than <a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/media/contact/coordinators" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">30 international foundations</a>, mostly funded by Soros, who has contributed more than <a href="http://www.soros.org/about/bios/staff/george-soros" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">$8 billion</a> to those efforts.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">The ProPublica stories are thoroughly researched by top-notch staffers who used to work at some of the biggest news outlets in the nation. But the topics are almost laughably left-wing. The site’s proud list of  “<a href="http://www.propublica.org/investigations/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Our Investigations</a>” includes attacks on oil companies, gas companies, the health care industry, for-profit schools and more. More than 100 stories on the latest lefty cause: opposition to drilling for natural gas by hydraulic fracking. Another 100 on the evils of the foreclosure industry.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Throw in a couple investigations making the military look bad and another about prisoners at <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/iraq/guantanamo.htm#r_src=ramp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Guantanamo</a> Bay and you have almost the perfect journalism fantasy – a huge budget, lots of major media partners and a liberal agenda unconstrained by advertising.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">One more thing: a <a href="http://www.propublica.org/about/leadership/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">14-person Journalism Advisory Board</a>, stacked with CNN’s David Gergen and representatives from top newspapers, a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster. Several are working journalists, including:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Jill Abramson, a managing editor of The New York Times;<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Kerry Smith, the senior vice president for editorial quality of ABC News;<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Cynthia A. Tucker, the editor of the editorial page of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">ProPublica is far from the only Soros-funded organization that is stacked with members of the supposedly neutral press. <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">The Center for Public Integrity is another great example. Its <a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/about/our-people/board-of-directors" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">board of directors </a>is filled with working journalists like Amanpour from ABC, right along side blatant liberal media types like <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/reporters/arianna-huffington.htm#r_src=ramp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Arianna Huffington</a>, of the <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/the-huffington-post.htm#r_src=ramp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Huffington Post</a> and now AOL.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Like ProPublica, the CPI board is a veritable Who’s Who of journalism and top media organizations, including:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Christiane Amanpour – Anchor of ABC’s Sunday morning political affairs program, “This Week with Christiane Amanpour.” A reliable lefty, she has called tax cuts “<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/12/20/abc-s-amanpour-refers-tax-cuts-giveaways" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">giveaways</a>,” the <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/tea-party.htm#r_src=ramp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Tea Party</a> “<a href="http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2010/20101017090954.aspx" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">extreme</a>,” and Obama “<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2011/01/26/amanpour-hails-obama-reaganesque-contended-tea-party-too-extreme-reagan" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">very Reaganesque.</a>” <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Paula Madison – Executive vice president and chief diversity officer for NBC Universal, who leads NBC Universal’s corporate diversity initiatives, spanning all broadcast television, cable, digital, and film properties.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Matt Thompson – Editorial product manager at National Public Radio and an adjunct faculty member at the prominent Poynter Institute.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">The group's advisory board features: <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Ben Sherwood, ABC News president and former "Good Morning America" executive producer<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Once again, like ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity’s investigations are mostly liberal – attacks on the coal industry, payday loans and conservatives like Mississippi Gov. <a class="r_lapi" href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/haley-barbour.htm#r_src=ramp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Haley Barbour</a>. The Center for Public Integrity is also more open about its politics, including a detailed investigation into conservative funders David and Charles Koch and their “<a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/04/06/3936/kochs-web-influence" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">web of influence</a>.”According to the center’s own 990 tax forms, the Open Society Institute gave it $651,650 in 2009 alone.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">The well-known Center for Investigative Reporting follows the same template – important journalists on the board and a liberal editorial agenda. Both the board of directors and the advisory board contain journalists from major news outlets. The board features:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Phil Bronstein (President), San Francisco Chronicle;<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• David Boardman, The Seattle Times;<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• Len Downie, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post, now VP;<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">• George Osterkamp, CBS News producer.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Readers of the site are greeted with numerous stories on climate change, illegal immigration and the evils of big companies. It counts among its media partners The Washington Post, Salon, CNN and ABC News. CIR received close to $1 million from Open Society from 2003 to 2008.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Why does it all matter? Journalists, we are constantly told, are neutral in their reporting. In almost the same breath, many bemoan the influence of money in politics. It is a maxim of both the left and many in the media that conservatives are bought and paid for by business interests. Yet where are the concerns about where their money comes from?<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Fred Brown, who recently revised the book “Journalism Ethics: A Casebook of Professional Conduct for News Media,” argues journalists need to be “transparent” about their connections and “be up front about your relationship” with those who fund you.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Unfortunately, that rarely happens. While the nonprofits list who sits on their boards, the news outlets they work for make little or no effort to connect those dots.<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/christiane-amanpour-biography-anchor-week-christiane-amanpour/story?id=11208824" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> Amanpour’s biography page</a>, for instance, talks about her lengthy career, her time at CNN and her many awards. It makes no mention of her affiliation with the Center for Public Integrity.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">If journalists were more up front, they would have to admit numerous uncomfortable connections with groups that push a liberal agenda, many of them funded by the stridently liberal George Soros. So don’t expect that transparency any time soon.</div></div></div></header></article></section></div></section></div></div></div>

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According to a May 17 Fox News op-ed, the prolific author and lifelong activist is largely to blame when leftist protests turn violent. <p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">In an op-ed titled "Liberals (and the media) are finally getting the violence they wanted," Dan Gainor, a vice-president of the politically conservative Media Research Center, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TykKulVqY9UC&pg=PA245&lpg=PA245&dq=people+with+power+understand+exactly+one+thing:+violence+chomsky&source=bl&ots=-cIQS9mrPD&sig=-LgPWAEREmzru7nJe3w_cS74AXY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV4KzcnPPTAhXMJsAKHb4zC40Q6AEIRzAH#v=onepage&q=people%20with%20power%20understand%20exactly%20one%20thing%3A%20violence%20chomsky&f=false" style="text-decoration-line: none;">references</a> Chomsky's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Power-Indispensable-Chomsky-Noam/dp/1522694358/?tag=alternorg08-20" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Understanding Power</a> (2002) in the first line of his assertion.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">"Liberal commentator Noam Chomsky once wrote, 'people with power understand exactly one thing: violence,'" Gainor <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/17/liberals-and-media-finally-getting-violence-wanted.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">writes</a>. "His alt-left supporters must have been paying attention."<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">"As a result," explains Gainor, "the liberal cold war against the right has escalated from demonization to intimidation, harassment and violence, with Trump administration officials and members of Congress as prime targets."<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">However, Chomsky was referring to a possibility of the U.S. reassessing its policies toward Israeli-occupied territories, "just as you can see the Israeli leadership reassessing them—because violence isn't working anymore," Chomsky continued in the book. <p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">With regards to resistance, Chomsky has repeatedly condemned violent protests of any kind. <p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">"The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming," Chomsky <a href="https://chomsky.info/19671207/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">stated</a> at the height of the Vietnam War. <p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">"As a tactic, violence is absurd," Chomsky added. "No one can compete with the government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression."<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">off bs<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Gainor, The Vice President of Business and Culture for the MRC, is a veteran editor with more than two decades of experience in print and online media. He has appeared a number of times on the Fox Business Network and writes for The Fox Forum. He has served as an editor at several newspapers including The Washington Times and The Baltimore News-American. Mr. Gainor also has extensive experience in online publishing – holding the position of managing editor for CQ.com, the Web site of Congressional Quarterly, and executive editor for ChangeWave, published by Phillips International. He has worked in financial publishing in his last two positions, launching new services for ChangeWave and Agora Inc. Mr. Gainor holds an MBA from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and a master’s in publications design from the University of Baltimore. As an undergraduate, he majored in political science and history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Mr. Gainor lives in Maryland and volunteers as a media and issues speaker with the Close-Up Foundation.  Gainor has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances. In addition to the Fox Business Network, his appearances include: CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” and “Fox & Friends,” as well as CNN’s “Paul Zahn Now.” He has appeared on local or national radio shows in every state including: the Jerry Doyle Show, The John Gibson Show, the Rusty Humphries Show, Phil Valentine Show, POTUS on XM Satellite Radio , the Thom Hartmann Show, Money & More, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, America at Night, Dateline Washington, the Lars Larson Show, the Jim Bohannon Show, Home Talk USA, The Weekend, Mancow, Money Dots on Main Street USA, American Family Radio, the Chuck Harder Show, Battleline with Alan Nathan, The Right Balance, Janet Parshall’s America and Entertainment USA.  He has been published in a wide variety of publications, including: Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Orange County Register, the New York Post, the Baltimore Examiner, Canada’s National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Augusta Free Press, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette, the Port Clinton, Ohio Beacon, Contacto Magazine, the Caribbean Voice, the Newtown Bee, the Frederick News-Post, The High Point Enterprise, the Easton Star Democrat, the Midland Daily News, the Findlay, Ohio, Courier, and the Simi Valley, Calif., Acorn.<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
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<h1 class="print-title" style="font-weight: normal;">Eco-Terrorists Attack Conservatives in New Film</h1>

<div class="field-item odd">Enviro film ‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ opens in more theaters after box office flop.</div>

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“Greedy Lying Bastards” follows “An Inconvenient Truth” in the climate change alarmism documentary film genre. The difference is this film lacked Al Gore’s name to give it momentum, although it has gotten some <a href="http://www.mrc.org/node/42834">help from CNN</a> [1].

The film is the creation of former eco-terrorist Craig Rosebraugh and actress <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000435/?ref_=sr_1" style="font-weight: normal;">Daryl Hannah</a> [2] of “Splash,” “Kill Bill” and “Bladerunner” among others. The film made a mere $45,000 its March 8 opening weekend, according to <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=greedylyingbastards.htm" style="font-weight: normal;">Box Office Mojo</a> [3], which rated it the 400th movie of the past 365 days, and the 46th movie its March 8 opening weekend.

<a href="http://www.mrc.org/node/42834">The documentary</a> [1] says it “investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem that is placing us on the bring of disaster,” according to the <a href="http://greedylyingbastards.com/">official website</a> [4]. The trailer, website and reviews for the film all make it out to be a collage of tried and true lefty climate change claims, complete with storm footage and villainization of the Koch brothers and the oil industry.

<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-greedy-lying-bastards-capsule-20130308,0,1651607.story">The Los Angeles Times</a> [5] said that “longtime followers of this hyper-partisan topic may not find much terribly new or revealing here.” After an initial limited showing, the film was released in more theatres on March 29.

Rosebraugh, the film’s director, has been an outspoken activist for both the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, both of which are classified as domestic terror groups by the <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2008/june/ecoterror_063008">FBI</a> [6]. In a press release on both groups, the FBI stated that “eco-terrorists and animal rights extremists are one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today.”

One of the movie’s main targets is U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. Inhofe told The <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx?Inhofe_fires_back_at_Greedy_climatechange_filmmaker/5-19637">Tulsa World</a> [7] that he was not surprised that the film targeted him, and he was proud of it on March 28. Inhofe was formerly the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. An outspoken conservative, Inhofe was also a winner of the <a href="http://downloads.frcaction.org/EF/EF12I79.pdf">Family Research Council</a> [8]’s “True Blue” award for a consistent conservative voting record.

"As I said in July 2003, when I first called global warming the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people, science has been co-opted by those who care more about peddling gloom-and-doom fear tactics to drive their own broader political agenda," Inhofe told The Tulsa World.

"Just by watching the trailer, that's exactly what this video seems to do as well, leveraging the unknown to incite fear and raise money to make people like Al Gore even wealthier," he continued. Since his first speech on the topic, Inhofe has been surprised by how organizations have credited him as being “capable of singlehandedly bringing about the end of the world.”

Director Rosebraugh claimed that the media was biased in favor of “climate change deniers,” even comparing global warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers in an interview with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/23/greedy-lying-bastards-climate-change_n_2917724.html?utm_hp_ref=green#slide=2132855">The Huffington Post</a> [9]:“Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They’ll have a known Holocaust denier debating a Holocaust survivor. Or a tobacco industry representative still arguing that smoking isn’t linked to cancer.”

The Business and Media Institute has demonstrated the opposite, exposing the liberal media’s bias against climate change <a href="http://www.mrc.org/node/30574">skeptics over</a> [10] and <a href="http://www.mrc.org/articles/climategate-1-year-later-networks-barely-cover-scandal-defend-and-exonerate-accused-scienti">over again</a> [11].

Rosebraugh also called out Republicans in the same interview, saying that as “long as they continue to publicly question the science of climate change, so will the media.” Just like Gore has said, Rosebraugh claims the debate about climate change is “already over.”

Rosebraugh’s Holocaust statements echo CBS’s <a href="http://www.mrc.org/node/30575">Scott Pelley</a> [12] from 2006, who argued against including climate change skeptics on the news, saying that “If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?”

The film’s list of scientific “experts” included NASA scientist <a href="http://www.mrc.org/node/40832">James Hansen</a> [13] who’s predictions have failed to come true. In 1988, he warned that global temperatures would rise by 0.45 degrees Celsius. <a href="http://www.mrc.org/articles/abc-reheats-leftover-bias-global-warming-showcases-hansen">This was not the case</a> [14]. However, Hansen began an August 2012 opinion piece for the Washington Post by saying that his predictions that year were too optimistic.

Hansen also called for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for “<a href="http://www.mrc.org/articles/times-ignores-chief-climate-scientists-scientific-stalinism">high crimes against humanity</a> [15]” in a 2008 speech to Congress, according to the U.K. news outlet the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange">Guardian</a> [16].

The film has gotten some publicity from the news media. During a March 9 <a href="http://www.mrc.org/node/42834">CNN interview</a> [1], the film’s executive producer, Daryl Hannah, was able to slam "false information" by the Koch brothers, compare herself to Martin Luther King, and call for the "eradication" of Citizens United during the interview. CNN completely ignored that the director and writer of the film, Rosebraugh, was a former spokesman for eco-terrorist groups for years before abandoning his work.

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is CNN, where environmental activists can launch their blistering attacks on man-made global warming skeptics without much of a challenge. On Tuesday's Starting Point, actress and activist Daryl Hannah promoted her new documentary "Greedy, Lying Bastards" that hits the funding and supposed falsehoods behind global warming skepticism.

Hannah was able to slam "false information" by the Koch brothers, compare herself to Martin Luther King, and call for the "eradication" of Citizens United during the interview. CNN completely ignored that the director and writer of her film, Craig Rosebraugh, was a fomer spokesman for eco-terrorist groups for years before abandoning his work.

At least The Oregonian newspaper <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/03/once_the_face_of_eco-terrorism.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 16.8px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">took the trouble</a> to provide such background context for the film that CNN ignored.

Man-made climate change skeptics have fared much worse than Hannah on CNN. For instance, on December 4 CNN host Piers Morgan <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/12/04/climate-realist-marc-morano-debates-bill-nye-science-guy-global-warmi" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 16.8px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">teamed up with</a> scientist Bill Nye against skeptic Marc Morano. Morgan even lectured his guest that "I respect that you have views. I don't think they're facts, and there are many scientists who would take issue with you about the use of the word 'fact.'"

On November 1, Morgan <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2012/11/01/cnns-morgan-raises-bloombergs-global-warming-concerns" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 16.8px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">defended</a> New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "very pertinent point" that Hurricane Sandy was probably brought about by global warming, and he again lectured skeptics that "it depends whether you believe the science or not."

Such hostility was nowhere to be found on Tuesday's Starting Point. Host Soledad O'Brien even promoted Hannah's documentary. "That's one of the most powerful lines.'They're in the business of selling doubt,'" she marveled at a movie line on global warming skeptics. "And it's that doubt that keeps this conversation, I think, about global warming going."

O'Brien prodded Hannah to deliver her activist message. "What was your personal interest in this? I mean, why climate change and environmental issues overall for you? You've gotten arrested because of your passion for some of these topics."

That teed up Hannah to compare her cause to that of Martin Luther King:   "Well you know first of all, I don't think that that's something that's really so bad. I mean, Martin Luther King was arrested 30 times before he was the age of 39 to right incredible wrongs. And we're at a time of extreme crises. I mean, we are facing a possible threat to our very life support systems."[note defense v mrc attack on actress and activist]

Hannah also claimed the Koch brothers spread falsehoods about global warming. "But then, yet, they will still funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure that climate legislation isn't passed. That there's false information put out about the climate crisis and also about clean energy and its possibilities."

Those were only some of many claims Hannah made during the interview that CNN mostly left unchallenged. "It opens nationwide in theaters on Friday," O'Brien closed the segment promoting the film.

A transcript of the segment, which aired on Starting Point on March 5 at 8:49 a.m. EST, is as follows:

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Daryl Hannah has been with us all morning. She's also the executive producer of a new movie which is called "Greedy, Lying Bastards". It's causing some major buzz, not just for the name. The film takes a look at campaigns that deny climate change. Let's play a little clip.

(Video Clip)

MARC MORANO: We actually have had no significant warming.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The breakup of the ice at the North Pole is not unusual.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right. There is no scientific basis for alarm.

RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC host: Are you guys funded in part by Exxon?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Verily, but why did you imagine that Exxon give you money?

Rep. HENRY WAXMAN (D-Calif.): The fossil fuel industries have an enormous amount of clout.

The Koch Brothers, for example, gave millions and millions of dollars to Republican efforts to not do anything to fight climate change.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They basically are in the business of selling doubt.

(End Video Clip)

O'BRIEN: That's one of the most powerful lines. "They're in the business of selling doubt." And it's that doubt that keeps this conversation, I think, about global warming going.

DARYL HANNAH, actress, activist: It's true because there is actually a consensus that it is happening. And that it is also human caused. However – and even, what's really interesting, is even Rex Tillerson from Exxon now has finally acknowledged that climate change is actually happening. Even the Koch Brothers I mean, you know, they will publicly come out and acknowledge it.

But then, yet, they will still funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure that climate legislation isn't passed. That there's false information put out about the climate crisis and also about clean energy and its possibilities.

So while they – they want to, you know, not seem like idiots and say, well, nothing is happening when you can obviously it's so clear now. We've got epic droughts. I mean, unprecedented droughts in the Midwest, in our bread basket of our country. We've got wildfires and superstorms and floods. And I mean, Arctic ice sheets melting in unprecedented fashions, et cetera. It's impossible to deny those facts, simple facts. Like you put the pH strip in the ocean, it's 30 percent more acid than it ever it has been.

O'BRIEN: What was your personal interest in this? I mean, why climate change and environmental issues overall for you? You've gotten arrested because of your passion for some of these topics.

JOHN BERMAN: Many times.

O'BRIEN: Yeah. A handful of times.

HANNAH: Well you know first of all, I don't think that that's something that's really so bad. I mean, Martin Luther King was arrested 30 times before he was the age of 39 to right incredible wrongs. And we're at a time of extreme crises. I mean, we are facing a possible threat to our very life support systems.

I mean, a week and a half ago, the World Bank – the World Bank – who financed most of these large fossil fuel projects, you know, mega dams, et cetera, put out their own report on the climate crisis. And it was, like, the worst horror film I've ever seen in my life. It was the scariest scenario.

They said that if we raise the temperature of the earth four degrees Celsius, essentially it's total systems collapse, mass starvation, mass extinctions, disease. I mean the picture that they portray in their report was so horrifying that they had no choice but to make urgent recommendations to make radical changes, to stop fossil fuels immediately.

O'BRIEN: Do you think you're getting –

HANNAH: And that's from the World Bank.

CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY, Wall Street Journal: You know what's the takeaway here? What do you want people who watch the film to do when they leave the theater?

HANNAH: Well, to -- to hold these fossil fuel companies accountable. Because, see, I believe that they're – first of all, I believe Citizens United needs to be eradicated. This ruling that gave corporations the right of a person – because now politicians are doing the bidding of corporations and not doing – not doing representing us, we the people.

They're representing the corporations, because now corporations can give them money to their campaigns. They can, you know, basically send hundreds of lobbyists to make sure that they keep the pressure on so that the politicians are doing their will. And when that's all the messaging that they get, they're going to do it. You know, what did Upton Sinclair say? You know you can't – a guy is not going to do something when his salary depends upon him doing it.

ROLAND MARTIN, CNN contributor: Daryl how do you – how do you counter though, the economic argument. Because what happens in this country any time you try to propose any change, folks will say oh it's going to cost us billions. It's going to wreck the economy. We're going to lose jobs. And that all this causes somebody to go –

(Crosstalk)

O'BRIEN: Are you picking the environment over human beings and livelihood?

(Crosstalk)

MARTIN: Right, people go, oh, my God. We can't lose jobs.

HANNAH: Well here's – here's the deal. What we're talking about is protecting our ability to survive and our – and our vital life support systems. Now, there's a way to do that and still create jobs that are domestic jobs with safe, clean energy. And that's where we should be putting all of our resources. Not just allowing these companies who are essentially raping and pillaging our ecosystems because they are making record profits. Even in this economy.

The oil – the fossil fuel industry is the wealthiest industry in the history of money. In the history of money, and yet we're still paying, you know, through the roof just for our gallons of gas to go to, you know, to take our kids to school. It is unethical, it's wrong. And now we're going to extreme forms of extraction just to get that fuel because we've run out of the easy-to-get stuff. We have to blow up entire mountain tops. We're just decimating our oldest mountain range in the Appalachians.

MARTIN: I take it you're against Keystone.

HANNAH: The Keystone which is a – this is something I think we would all be united on because it's not a polarizing issue. It's a foreign company coming into our country, taking our farmers' and ranchers' lands through eminent domain, which is supposed to be only used for national security. But in this case, this pipeline which is going to be carrying corrosive tar sand sludge, it has to be pushed through at 150 degrees with toxic chemicals, is only going down to the Gulf of Mexico so that they can export it. They say that in their own documents. This is not for energy security for America. This is not going to affect our gasoline prices except for possibly to raise them, because the price per barrel that they can get down in the Gulf of Mexico to export is $20 higher a barrel.

O'BRIEN: The issue is a tough one.

HANNAH: And they try to confuse you. That's what it is.

O'BRIEN: Well that is –

(Crosstalk)

MARTIN: You're slightly passionate about this.

HANNAH: It's very infuriating. I mean, it's outrageous. It should be illegal to do what they do. It should be illegal.

O'BRIEN: The film is called "Greedy, Lying Bastards".

MARTIN: Cut right to the chase.

O'BRIEN: Yeah, it really does, doesn't it? Nice to have you talk about it. It opens nationwide in theaters on Friday.

-- Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center

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<h1 class="print-title">Global Warming Censored</h1>

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<div class="field-item odd">March 3, 2008 - 6:32pm</div>

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<a href="http://www.mrc.org/bmi/reports/2008/Global_Warming_Censored_Executive_Summary.html">See Executive Summary</a> [1]

Correction Appended

So much for that job requirement of balance and objectivity. When it came to global warming the media clearly left out dissent in favor of hype, cute penguins and disastrous predictions.

"They [penguins] are charismatic, endearing and in serious trouble," warned NBC's Anne Thompson on the Dec. 12, 2007, "Nightly News." Thompson didn't include any disagreement.

While the networks had plenty of time to worry about the future of birds, most network news shows didn't take much time to include any other point of view even though hundreds of scientists have expressed skepticism of manmade climate change theory.

Another NBC reporter, Kerry Sanders, hyped the threat of warming to polar bears and walruses on Dec. 9, 2007, "a world scientists say may melt away by 2050." Sanders didn't include any scientists who disagreed with that claim.

The lack of balance on the issue prompted one network journalist, John Stossel of ABC, to do a story on the media's one-sidedness on '20/20" Oct. 19, 2007.

"You've heard the reports. The globe is warming. And it's our fault. And the consequences will be terrible. But you should know there is another side to this story," teased Stossel as he began his "Give me a Break" segment.

There is another side to the issue. In one story, Stossel interviewed four scientists critical of the so-called "consensus" on global warming. That's four more dissenting scientists than CBS put on its network in six entire months.

To better assess network behavior on this key topic, the Business & Media Institute examined 188 stories from ABC, CBS and NBC that mentioned "global warming" or "climate change" between July 1, 2007, and Dec. 31, 2007.

BMI found skepticism was shut out of a vast majority of reports. Overall, a measly 21 percent had any dissent at all referenced by a journalist or guest.

Skeptical voices were suppressed by the networks, outnumbered by nearly a 7-to-1 ratio by those promoting fear of climate change or being used by the network for the same purpose. CBS had an even worse record: nearly 38 proponents to one skeptic.

Lengthy segments like Scott Pelley's Oct. 21, 2007, "60 Minutes" story on "The Age of Megafires" certainly had time to include an alternative point of view to the notion that global warming is largely responsible for bigger, hotter fires in the American West. But Pelley skipped those voices - voices like a University of California Merced professor published on the Washington Spokesman-Review Web site about the California wildfires.

According to Alan Zarembo's Oct. 24, 2007, story, <a href="http://www.spokesmanreview.com/nation_world/story.asp?ID=216179">"Scientists said it would be difficult to make that case, given the combustible mix of drought and wind that has plagued the region for centuries or more.</a> [2]"

Anthony Westerling, a UC-Merced professor and climate scientist, told Zarembo that the wildfires were the result of two "staples of the region's climatic history," meaning "strong Santa Ana winds" and "a drought that turned much of the hillsides to bone-dry kindling."

"Neither can be attributed to climate change," said Westerling.

The near blackout of skepticism on the networks didn't come as much of a surprise, since reporters like Pelley have been much more than onlookers in the story of global warming. In many cases they have become advocates - even going "to the ends of the earth" "to find evidence of climate change."

Ann Curry of NBC's "Today" made that clear on Oct. 29, 2007: "[O]ur mission, of course, is to find evidence of climate change."

When people with other views were mentioned, it sometimes came with a denigrating label like "deniers" or "cynics." Such critics were also portrayed as flat-earthers by journalists and guests. One person skeptical of manmade climate change, a Kentucky state representative, managed to get on the air but was treated to an exceptionally hostile interview by ABC's Bill Weir.

There were many other flaws in the reporting that created a very one-sided perspective. Journalists repeatedly phrased questions or made statements indicating human-caused warming was a fact, and they included opinions of politicians, movie stars, musicians and ordinary people like bankers instead of relying on scientists.

But according to Dr. Pat Michaels viewers would be better served by hearing both sides. "They would benefit from appreciating the true scientific diversity on the topic. The arguments against these gloom and doom global warming scenarios are much stronger than the arguments for them," Michaels told BMI.

Voices of Dissent: Missing

According to NBC's Brian Williams, "There's no shortage of folks out there saying it's [global warming is] not all that bad." Williams was teasing a "Nightly News" story on August 15 that included two other voices: Dr. Pat Michaels, <a href="http://www.cato.org/people/michaels.html">a research professor of environmental sciences</a> [3], and Marlo Lewis, <a href="http://www.cei.org/dyn/view_expert.cfm?expert=10">senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> [4].

Williams was certainly right - there are <a href="http://old.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2007/globalwarming/SkepticalScientists.asp">hundreds of scientists</a> [5] from around the world who question the global warming "consensus" - but in the news the latter half of 2007 you had to look hard to find them.

On the three networks, 79 percent of stories (149 out of 188) didn't mention skepticism or anyone at all who dissented from global warming alarmism. Williams' own network, NBC tied with CBS with roughly 85 percent of stories ignoring other opinions (NBC excluded dissent 76 out of 89 stories, CBS - 39 out of 46). ABC was the most balanced network, but still censored dissent from 64 percent of its stories (34 out of 53). The 113 casual mentions of global warming that BMI analyzed were not included in this calculation.

But dissent flourishes. The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee released a <a href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport">list</a> [6] on Dec. 20, 2007, of more than 400 skeptical scientists from different fields - astrophysics, geology, climatology, meteorology and others. The release didn't even earn a news brief from one of the three networks as of Dec. 31, 2007.

Even when one show claimed it would represent a range of opinions on the issue, it didn't. On Oct. 30, 2007, NBC "Today" co-host Matt Lauer teased the upcoming "Ends of the Earth" broadcasts saying to Meredith Vieira, "And you're going to be interviewing all the experts talking about the issues of climate change." (emphasis added)

Vieira replied, "Absolutely. Getting into a whole debate, too, because some people believe there's an effect of climate change, others say not really. So we're going to discuss all of it and give viewers at home real tips on what you can do."

But on Nov. 5 and 6, 2007 as "Today" went to the "Ends of the Earth," the only "experts" Vieira spoke to were former vice president Al Gore, Chip Giller of Grist.org - a left-wing environmental Web site - and Katherine Wroth, co-author of "Wake Up and Smell the Planet."

Grist is an extreme publication. David Roberts of the environmentalist magazine called for <a href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/9/19/11408/1106" target="_blank">"war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg,"</a> [7] referring to the climate change "<a href="http://old.businessandmedia.org/commentary/2007/20070131151102.aspx">denial industry</a> [8]." (Roberts later <a href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/12/115734/52">retracted</a> [9] his comment, but not until it received a strongly negative response.)

The only skepticism of global warming "consensus" that came up was a brief mention by Vieira as she interviewed Gore. She asked Gore about John Christy, one scientist formerly with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), who criticized Gore's predictions in an op-ed printed in The Wall Street Journal. Gore shot back calling Christy an "outlier."

Vieira didn't question Gore's remark or give Christy an opportunity to respond to the attack. Perhaps if she had, Christy would have echoed his remarks from the Nov. 1, 2007, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119387567378878423.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries">Wall Street Journal</a> [10]:

"I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see. Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never 'proof') and the coincidence that change in carbon dioxide and global temperatures have loose similarity over time," said Christy.

He continued, "We [dissenting scientists] discount the possibility that everything is caused by human actions, because everything we've seen the climate do has happened before. Sea levels rise and fall continually. The Arctic ice cap has shrunk before. One millennium there are hippos swimming in the Thames, and a geological blink later there is an ice bridge linking Asia and North America."

'Deniers,' 'Hired Guns' and Hostile Interviews

Journalists practically drooled over Al Gore during Live Earth interviews and after he won the Nobel Peace Prize. In contrast, people with alternative views barely got face time on the networks. Instead, they received insults and hostile questions.

The ugliest treatment of a skeptic was by Bill Weir on Nov. 18, 2007, "Good Morning America." He was interviewing Democratic state representative Jim Gooch from Kentucky.

Weir peppered Gooch with hardball questions and even attacked Gooch's motives:

<div style=" margin-left: 2em;">"So what do you suspect these 4,000 or so scientists from 130 countries are up to? Do you accuse them [IPCC scientists] of lying? Do you think they're just all wrong? I should point out that your family is in business with the coal industry. You opposed a bill that would've stopped coal mines from exploding the tops of mountains and dumping waste into rivers there. So shouldn't you temper on your opinion on the environment?"</div>

Gooch made it clear that he supported an open debate, saying, "[T]here is another side of the story. I think what we have is we have the problem of global warming about to become a political problem when lawmakers in Congress, when governors in states, when even the courts start to act in ways that are gonna affect the American people in severe ways." Gooch then mentioned the possible $6-trillion cost of one bill to deal with global warming.

"And what I wanna make sure that we do is that if we act, we have the science right," explained Gooch.

Weir wasn't satisfied: "But, but according to all these scientists, the more handwringing we do, the more we dither on this, the worse it's going to get. And what if you're wrong? What if this is, in fact, a global catastrophe? Isn't it a moral imperative as a public servant to err on the side of planetary survival and get something done?"

Instead of letting Gooch debate with someone who disagreed, Weir filled that role himself. He came across as a passionate advocate for "something" that would supposedly aid "survival," ignoring the cost, accuracy, and his supposed objectivity.

Journalists also called skeptics "deniers," conjuring images of Holocaust deniers, and cast them as flat-earthers - ironically forgetting that there was once a scientific consensus that the earth was flat.

When Gore attacked <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/PAD/sppb/NSSTC-CSPAR_Colloquia/FAL-01/christy_bio.html">Dr. Christy</a> [11] [who was mentioned by Meredith Vieira] on "Today" Nov. 5, 2007, Gore specifically compared people critical of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming to people who think the Earth is flat.

"Well, he's an outlier, he no longer belongs to the IPCC. And he is way outside the scientific consensus … There are still people who believe that the Earth is flat," said Gore.

Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made the same disparaging comparison on July 16, 2007 "Early Show" on CBS. After co-host Harry Smith said, "[I] asked why some people still don't believe we have a problem."

"Well, I think that there is [sic] still a lot of people that still think that the world is flat," said Schwarzenegger.

NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson said, "He is proudly a denier," of research professor and CATO senior fellow Dr. Pat Michaels.

Michaels told BMI, "She has no idea what she's talking about. I have written and spoken repeatedly in the last 15 years that human beings are responsible for most of the warming in the past century." What Michaels disagrees on is whether such warming will result in environmental catastrophe.

Recalling that NBC interview, Michaels continued, "The interview was great, but she pulled out one little piece and took it completely out of context. It was really, really disappointing. The interview was conducted in a very professional fashion, it was the editing that clearly did not reflect the tone and content of the overall interview."

Thompson actually included two dissenting views in that Aug. 15, 2007, "Nightly News" but undermined both their opinions by implying they were not experts and were only making trouble: "Climate experts say whether hired guns or honest dissenters, deniers are confusing the issue and delaying solutions."

A paltry 37 people expressing skepticism were included in six months of TV news coverage on the issue across three networks. That included all kinds of people like politicians or government employees, business representatives, celebrities, ordinary people and unidentified people. Only seven of them were scientists like Michaels.

CBS practically banned skeptics from its network, including only four and not a single scientist. The network seemed to adopt the mentality of CBS journalist Scott Pelley, who referred to global warming skeptics as "deniers" in March 2006 when he said, <a href="http://old.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/fireandice.asp">"If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?"</a> [12] Recent "60 Minutes" segments from Pelley indicated he hasn't changed his mind about balanced journalism.

Those skeptical of the environmental impact of Gore's Live Earth concerts on July 7, 2007 also earned scorn from the media - even those like Bob Geldof who weren't questioning the science.

"[T]here have been cynics out there who question whether the artists are practicing what they preach," said NBC's Lester Holt on July 7, 2007 "Today."

You Call Them Experts?

ABC's Bill Weir claimed that "all the scientists" urge immediate action to stop global warming, but it wasn't just scientists the three networks relied on to make that case. Far from it.

There were politicians and government workers. Musicians like Madonna and Dave Matthews. Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio. And quite possibly, your next-door neighbor.

What those celebrities said had little to do with science and everything to do with advocacy. Singer KT Tunstall, a Live Earth performer, was quoted by ABC on July 7, 2007.

"I think I am an environmentalist. I mean, I don't have a car. I live in a small apartment," said Tunstall.

Madonna urged Live Earth attendees, "If you wanna save the planet, let me see you jumping up and down."

But it wasn't just globe-trotting stars telling people the planet was in danger and crowding out any other perspective.

Politicians offered perhaps more substance, but certainly not much more science than the Hollywood types. In addition to fawning over Gore, networks interviewed Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R), California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Independent), among others.

Reporters also relied on ordinary voices to reinforce the idea that global warming was already a major threat impacting our daily lives.

Only 15 percent of the people used to support global warming positions were scientists - identified as a "scientist" or with a specialty like genetics, ecology, biology or oceanography. A total of 71 scientists were included in six months of coverage. But networks turned to ordinary, unidentified people nearly a third more often than the scientists (101 to 71.)

Networks turned to ordinary people like two Live Earth concertgoers and the unidentified female "consumer" quoted by ABC "World News with Charles Gibson" on Sept. 14, 2007.

"You know, I think everybody's got to think about it. We've got to change," said a woman in a story about carbon labeling of food products.

Those quotes were used to underline the points that reporters made. One story on "Today" Nov. 6, 2007, warned that melting ice could kill off polar bears. Reporter Kerry Sanders included three unidentified people talking about polar bears - supporting his remark that "Worst-case scenario: If the Arctic ice continues to melt, in the next 100 years, the U.S. Wildlife Service says the only place you'll find a polar bear will be at the zoo."

Worries over Arctic melt flooded global warming coverage in the latter half of 2007, but as columnist John Tierney wrote in the Jan. 1, 2008 New York Times: "When the Arctic sea ice last year [2007] hit the lowest level ever recorded by satellites, it was big news and heralded as a sign that the whole planet was warming. When the Antarctic sea ice last year reached the highest level ever recorded by satellites, it was pretty much ignored."

No Need for Debate, Warming is 'Fact'

To many in the news media, global warming and its reported cause were already established fact. It was clear by the way some journalists talked about warming that they had accepted Gore's insistence that "the debate's over."

Just listen to CBS's Harry Smith: "Before we do anything else, there is, in fact, global climate change. It really affects some climates much more than others and it's really caused some real serious problems." Those serious problems Smith was talking about were allergies during a segment on the Aug. 7, 2007 "Early Show."

ABC's Sam Champion seemed to agree. Champion called the fourth U.N. IPCC report "definitive" on Sept. 5, 2007 and said he had been "investigating the alarming numbers of animals that are disappearing due to global warming" in July.

But Dan Harris went the farthest on Dec. 2, 2007 in a story about security risk and global warming. The "World News Sunday" host told viewers to "Think about this scenario: global warming contributes to a severe drought and food shortage in a third-world country. The government collapses. Warlords take over. America is forced to intervene."

Shockingly, Harris then claimed: "It's already happened, Somalia, 1993, with disastrous consequences."

Harris excluded expertise on the Somali situation or any context. Human Rights Watch, a liberal international organization, gave a very different perspective at the time of the crisis back in 1992:

"Somalia has historically been subject to famines, especially in the pastoral areas of the center and north … <a href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/1992/somalia/">The current famine that threatens Mogadishu and south-central Somalia is radically different in origin and impact. Drought has played only a minor role</a> [13], and the main victims are poor townspeople, farmers and rural laborers."

The ABC correspondent didn't include any statements about the <a href="http://www.onlineethics.org/cms/14198.aspx">way the war was thought to have contributed to the famine.</a> [14]

Journalists weren't the only ones claiming that global warming was a fact, though. But the people journalists chose to interview also included Gore saying the "debate's over" and didn't dispute Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s incorrect statement that there was "zero dissent" on the issue, or Leonardo DiCaprio's assertion of a "90-percent consensus."

"Consensus" was rarely questioned by reporters at all, and ABC's Bill Weir even used the concept of "these 4,000 or so scientists" to hammer at one person expressing a different view.

The media did a terrible job of actually explaining what the IPCC was. Atmospheric scientist Dr. John Christy told <a href="http://www.earthsky.org/blog/51179/scientific-consensus">Earth & Sky Web site</a> [15] that the "IPCC would do well to define what each participant truly contributes to each product (i.e. Summary for Policy Makers vs. Full Text) so that the world would know that thousands of scientists never reached a 'consensus' on anything."

"When the Full Text is developed, 'consensus' is a concept held by the chapters' Lead Authors who often ignore or contradict positions offered by the Contributing Authors and Reviewers," explained Christy.

David Henderson, a former chief economist of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), wrote a detailed criticism of the IPCC in the Oct. 11, 2007 Wall Street Journal. He called the process "flawed" and biased because "the Panel members and those who appoint them are of course identified with the policies of their governments And virtually all governments are formally committed … to the 'stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere'."

<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB119205274505355129-lMyQjAxMDE3OTEyMTAxNTEyWj.html">"[T]his puts in doubt the accepted basis of official climate policies,"</a> [16] concluded Henderson.

It Don't Cost a Thing if It's Got That Climate Swing

Not only did the networks censor skepticism from stories, but the cost of proposed solutions, small or large, was routinely omitted.

BMI found that 90 percent of the stories didn't mention cost at all, even though the networks urged immediate action to stop the "climate crisis."

"NBC Nightly News" ignored cost in a Dec. 18, 2007 report about the recent energy bill passed by Congress.

"What America drives could change dramatically under the energy bill," said Anne Thompson before quoting David Hamilton of the left-wing environmentalist group Sierra Club.

Hamilton lauded parts of the bill during the "Fueling Change" segment: "This bill means that we will get all the same safety, all the same performance that we've ever gotten from our cars, but we'll get it with more miles to the gallon."

Thompson and Hamilton both ignored the obvious cost to auto manufacturers of designing vehicles that will be able to meet the new fuel efficiency requirements. Likely, those costs will be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher vehicles prices.

Other plans to curb greenhouse-gas emissions could cost trillions of dollars. One estimate by business consulting firm CRA International put a <a href="http://old.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20071113133308.aspx">$4-trillion to $6-trillion price tag</a> [17] on the Lieberman-Warner bill, which would mandate scaling back emissions levels to 1990s levels by 2020. That would cost each American man, woman and child $494 a year.

Network reporters also didn't focus on how much is already being spent. As the Business & Media Institute reported in its "Fire and Ice" study, more than 99.5 percent of American climate change funding comes from the government - taxpayers - and we spend $4 billion per year on climate change research.

The Kyoto treaty that was never ratified by the U.S. carried an estimated cost of $440 billion per year for America. The Senate voted 95 to 0 to reject it.

MethodologyBMI examined all ABC, CBS and NBC news transcripts that included the terms "global warming" or "climate change" during the most recent six month period - from July 1, 2007, to Dec. 31, 2007. Only stories mentioning those terms were included in the study.

The stories were split into two categories: stories and casual mentions. Casual mentions encompassed anchor briefs shorter than 50 words and longer stories that only mentioned global warming or climate change incidentally (the story was not about that issue).

"Dissent," for the purpose of this study, included any uncertainty ["I don't know"], alternative opinions about warming, and caution against making climate change policy decisions without more information. It also included criticism of "solutions" to global warming and "awareness" campaigns like Live Earth - even when the critic wasn't disagreeing with manmade climate change, but just the usefulness of worldwide rock concerts.

People quoted in a story that supported climate change claims were placed in the proponent category because their comments were used by the network to support the manmade global warming viewpoint. There was one exception. In one story, scientist Bill Nye presented both positions on the issue in a balanced manner. He was counted as neutral in that story.

Correction: Due to a tabulation error, the original version of this report said 80 percent of the stories lacked dissent. The correct number was 79 percent. The actual total of stories was 188. The CBS total was also misstated. The correct figure was 85 percent (39 out of 46). State Representative Jim Gooch (D-Ky.) was incorrectly identified within the report as Bill Gooch. BMI regrets the errors.

Resources

<a href="http://old.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2006/fireandice/fireandice_execsum.asp">Fire and Ice:</a> [18] Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can't decide 'weather' we face an ice age or warming.

<a href="http://old.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2007/globalwarming/ClimateOfBias.asp">Climate of Bias</a> [19]: BMI's section dedicated to issues of climate change in the media

<a href="http://old.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2007/globalwarming/SkepticalScientists.asp">Skeptical Scientists</a> [5]: A list of hundreds of scientists who question the science surrounding global warming alarmism.

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Scanning the horizon for someone to blame for the latest attack on Germany's largest bank, FOX news pundit Dan Gainor worked "the Internets." Did he detail Deutsche Bank's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/business/12bank.html?pagewanted=all" title="reference on track record" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal;">track record</a> of making friends by ripping off consumers and <a href="http://banksterusa.org/content/deutsche-bank-goes-after-whistleblower%E2%80%99s-son" title="reference on foreclosing on their homes" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal;">foreclosing on their homes</a>? Did he mention that Deutsche Bank <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/03/20/exclusive-city-banker-sacked-after-taunting-nhs-staff-with-10-note-115875-23001700/" title="reference on stirred" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal;">stirred</a> <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,792199,00.html" title="reference on public ire" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal;">public ire</a> when it was bailed out by multiple governments, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-01/foreign-banks-tapped-fed-s-lifeline-most-as-bernanke-kept-borrowers-secret.html" title="reference on including two billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal;">including two billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve</a>? Did he even bother to notice that it was <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bomb-explodes-tax-collection-office-rome-15119851" title="reference on widely reported" target="blank" style="font-weight: normal;">widely reported</a> that an Italian anarchist group had already claimed responsibility for the attack?

No. In his piece on FOX News, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/12/11/left-obama-escalate-war-on-banks-into-dangerous-territory/" title="reference on " obama="" escalate="" war="" on="" banks="" into="" dangerous="" target="blank">"Left, Obama Escalate War on Banks Into Dangerous Territory,"</a> Gainor decided to go after the bank-busting activists at the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org" title="reference on Center for Media and Democracy" target="blank">Center for Media and Democracy</a> in Madison, Wisconsin, specifically our <a href="http://www.banksterusa.org/" title="reference on BanksterUSA.org" target="_blank">BanksterUSA.org</a> site, because the Bankster masthead is riddled with bullet holes.

...FOX has been flummoxed by the Occupy Wall Street movement. First characterizing protesters as dirty hippies, FOX is now forced into the awkward position of seeing GOP presidential candidates adopting the Wall Street reform message. Mitt Romney is now purportedly part of the 99 percent, and Jon Huntsman offered a serious proposal to break up the banks if he is elected -- whittling the behemoths whose assets represent over 60 percent of GDP down to a size that can no longer pose a threat to the stability of the U.S. economy.

The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Bankers_Association" title="reference on American Bankers Association" target="self">American Bankers Association</a> and their hired PR flaks understand that the big banks "stand at the nexus of where OWS protesters and the Tea Party overlap" and multi-million dollar PR campaigns will need to be undertaken to try to turn that around. Into the breach, comes FOX. Linking bank campaigners like <a href="http://www.banksterusa.org/" title="reference on BanksterUSA" target="blank">BanksterUSA</a>, <a href="http://www.seiu.org/" title="reference on SEIU" target="_blank">SEIU</a>, and Occupy Wall Street to an attempted bombing overseas is an old trick to discredit a movement that has Wall Street and its friends deeply worried.

<h2>Gainor's Group Funded by Koch, Bradley, Scaife & T. Boone Pickens</h2>

<img src="/d2002480-9522-5f7d-8ec2-99608619fc83.png"/>Oil tycoon and "Swift Boat" smear bankroller T. Boone Pickens

Gainor's penchant for passing over-the-top accusations and unsubstantiated attacks as journalism should come as no surprise since he has the honor of being the T. Boone Pickens Fellow of the Media Research Center (MRC). Pickens is the oil tycoon who helped George W. Bush's efforts to keep the White House in 2004 by bankrolling the so-called "SwiftBoat Veterans for The Truth." The two million dollars Pickens gave the Swift Boaters helped underwrite four TV ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry with spurious claims about his military service and awards. Pickens is a "trustee" of the MRC, which was created by Brent Bozell, previously the chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee.

<img src="/2437f7c1-2015-525e-b2bf-43e4c3b5d179.png"/>Gainor's site sells anti-First Amendment ware

sThe MRC has received untold sums from Pickens as well as from other right-wing funders like <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Media_Research_Center/funders" title="reference on the Koch, Bradley, Scaife, Olin, DeVos and Coors family foundations" target="blank">the Koch, Bradley, Scaife, Olin, DeVos and Coors family foundations</a>, as well as from <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/exxon-still-aids-climate-sceptics/story-e6frg6so-1225894256861" title="reference on Exxon" target="blank">Exxon</a>, the latter for MRC's aid in denying climate change. Its income from these and other patrons of the 1% topped $12 million in 2010. (Meanwhile, in his article Gainor falsely claimed BanksterUSA is funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute even though CMD has noted on PRWatch that its grant is for the national security and surveillance research of CMD's Executive Director, Lisa Graves, who has testified before Congress on such issues.)

MRC also gets some receipts from selling doormats urging people to "Stomp Out the Liberal Media" featuring the faces of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.

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